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The offical biography of Count Chocula

"Ernst Choukula was born the third child to Estonian landowers in the late autumn of 1873. His parents, Ivan and Brushken Choukula, were well-established traders of Baltic grain who-- by the early twentieth century--had established a monopolistic hold on the export markets of Lithuania, Latvia and southern Finland. A clever child, Ernst advanced quickly through secondary schooling and, at the age of nineteen, was managing one of six Talinn-area farms, along with his father, and older brother, Grinsh. By twenty-four, he appeared in his first "barrelled cereal" endorsement, as the Choukula family debuted "Ernst Choukula's Golden Wheat Muesli", a packaged mix that was intended for horses, mules, and the hospital ridden." From a spoof someone snuck onto Wikipedia.

New York Times Magazine takes a new look at nuclear power, and asks "Is it safe?"
Maybe not. Included in the package is a photo of nuclear powerplant security guard, holding a menacing black assault rifle which is unloaded.

This guy attneds a book singing New York times magaizne takes a new look at nuclear powerr, and asks" Is it safe?"
Included in the pakcge is a photo of nbulcer plant secutiy guard, holding a menaicxn looking blakc assualy riggle. only problem- her rifle is unload.

New York times magaizne takes a new look at nuclear powerr, and asks" Is it safe?"
Included in the pakcge is a photo of nbulcer plant secutiy guard, holding a menaicxn looking blakc assualy riggle. only problem- her rifle is unload.

[May 2, 2006]

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Current events have taken away our ability to post to this site for a while.
In the interim, here’s something that will keep you busy for a while.

[May 2, 2006]

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Every Imperial Dog has his day.


It's a great day for our nemeses at the 501st Legion. They're getting their own action figures from Hasbro, the official maker of all the Star Wars toys. One suggestion: if Hasbro wants to make these action figures truly authentic, then perhaps they should make some of the molds a little, er, rounder… (All kidding aside, good for them. What's so bad about a little desktop collectable, anyway? After all, it's not like these guys take themselves too seriously.)

This looks like a genius move for Hasbro. One look at their Members Page tells you how HUGE this costuming phenomenon has become. They have clubs in Europe, Japan, even the UAE. By the way, a shout out to our brethren in Norway and Sweden: Somewhere, our Viking ancestors are hanging their heads in shame...

Escenas de una alameda (Scenes from a Mall)
One of the Ten lives far, far away from here. He just spent a few days back here, and he told us about a peculiar problem he has whenever he goes back to where he now lives. “Once I go back, for two days I have a Boston accent again. It's wicked funny.” We know how he feels. Why, just the other day we went shopping at the Cambridgeside Galleria, and we were still speaking Spanish two days later.

Want a fun way to spend an afternoon? Try finding where the Cambridgeside Sears keeps their small appliances, when all the store directories and maps are printed in Spanish. Not English AND Spanish. Just Spanish. We wanted to ask one of the clerks for help, but the only Spanish we know is how to say “Golly, this yo yo toy certainly is large” which we picked up from watching the Simpsons.

Imagine if anyone could view your high school yearbook page at any time, day or night.
And not only could you choose the photo that went along with it, but you could update everything on there constantly That’s our take on Myspace.com. This thing is everywhere. After we’re done writing this stuff for you people, all Ten of us are headed over there and setting up our own accounts. We held out for as long as possible, but it's become clear that this thing has passed the point of being an annoying fad and become part of the mainstream, like a Blackberry or a Foxwoods Wampum Reward Card. Sure, Myspace may be gone in a year (much like the original Palm handheld faded quickly) but the concept won’t be. More importantly, we’re getting tired of hearing people even older than us talk about the latest thing they found on Myspace. Even the Baddest Motherfucker in China tells us he's got a Myspace page.

*Note- don’t bother looking for us on Myspace. We’re not actually building a page on there –you think we want our future bosses trolling around there, looking for reasons not to hire us? We just want to be able to log on and snoop around. After all, we know you look to us to keep your finger on the pulse of everything. Like your own personal ten-man Advance Team, but without the fake badges and blue lights.

This explains why Whitney Houston stopped pursuing her movie career after the Bodyguard

SNL’s latest digital short.
"LaserCats." We watched this as it unfolded two Saturdays ago, and we were speechless. We finally concluded that Lasercats was one of 2 things: the absolute worst 2 minutes ever filmed, or something that future generations will look back on as one of the most brilliant pieces ever put out by SNL. You decide.

By the way, anyone who’s watched SNL this season may notice a reversal of sorts. The best skits now come on after Weekend Update. Once Update’s over, it seems they let the new kids come out and play: Jason Sudeikis (who looks to be a potential Bill Murray) Bill Hader, Kristen Wigg, and Andy Samberg.

As we’ve said all along, Moussaoui was at best a benchwarmer for Al Qaeda.

“Moussaoui's claim that he was in on 9/11 made most of the papers' front pages, with only the LAT noting that intel sources were skeptical. As for yesterday's FBI testimony confirming that even the government doesn't buy Moussaoui's story, nobody fronts that.” (blurb via Slate.com)

He’s already successfully used the occasion of his Death Penalty trial to elevate himself to the ranks of a 9/11 co-conspirator. If he gets the death penalty, we will be completing the process of turning him into a martyr.

And people wonder why most of the of the arts community hates Bush.
Its not always liberal politics or far left anti-war nutcases writing the shows and movies that take a shot at the Bush administration. Many in the arts community, regardless of their politics, perceive this administration to be a persistent threat to the free practice of their craft. And we agree. The last 5 years have not been kind to the creative types. The FCC is retroactively editing 5 year-old versions of the Family Guy, the FBI is sending agents to investigate porn, copyright laws are being extended into nearly infinity, and now the Attorney General is suggesting that "Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years."

But Rolling Stone still takes it way to far.
Come on, worse than Hoover? Worse than Grant? Carter? Nixon? Please.

How you like them apple bottoms?

Not content to rest on their laurels after cracking the Enigma code, the Brits are at it again. This time, they claim they've devised the formula for the perfect female posterior. Clearly, Good Will Hunting it ain't:

"(S+C) x (B+F)/T = V. S is the overall shape or droopiness of the bottom, C represents how spherical the buttocks are, B measures muscular wobble or bounce, while F records the firmness. V is the hip to waist ratio, or symmetry of the bottom, and T measures the skin texture and presence of cellulite." (found via kottke.org)

We proofed it, and the math checks out. In fact, if you square the sum of S + C, you get a podonka donk.

[April 22, 2006]

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From the Gallery of Fake Laughs.
Governor Mitt Romney and Speaker Sal Dimasi share a great, hearty fake laugh last week, while everyone else feigns amusement until the photographers go away.



Unfortunate ad placement, courtesy of Breitbart.com

The word "Match" takes on a whole new meaning when placed alongside an update to the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal.

It's often been said that consumers are like sheep.Now the same can be said for the marketers themselves.

“I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.” Scott Adams, the guy behind Dilbert, answers a whole ton of philosophical questions. He also questions the concept of always respecting the beliefs of others:

"I respect the Mormons for doing a great job of creating good citizens. Whatever they’re doing seems to be working. You rarely hear about a gang of violent Mormons terrorizing a town. But must I also respect their practice of wearing special underpants to ward off evil?"

A handy map showing all the places we don’t want to live Looks like we’re eventually resettling in Italy or Japan

As a nation, we are a truly, truly stupid race of people if we actually sentence Zacharias Moussaoui to the death penalty. His execution would turn an incompetent Al Quaeda benchwarmer into a worldwide martyr.

How many words are there in the English language? 988,968. Or, maybe more. Or maybe less. Fascinating article about how such an easy question is actually almost impossible to answer. For example:

"The problem with trying to number the words in any language is that it's very hard to agree on the basics. For example, what is a word? If run is a verb, is the noun run another word? What about the inflected forms ran, runs, and running? What about words with run as a base, such as runner and runnable and runoff and runway? Are compounds, such as man-bites-dog, man-child, man-eater, manhandle, man-hour,man of God, man's man, and men in black, to be counted once or many times?"

We’ve been thinking about this since we first read it. Several of the Ten earn their livings with words; one of us was even thisclose to being crowned the 1980 regional spelling bee champion for the City of Boston (who knew the word Indian wasn’t capitalized?) Our opinion: who cares? A more important question that needs to be answered: Can any English language inventory be considered credible if it doesn't include the words added to the English language by the writers of the Simpsons?

[April 17, 2006]

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The Place: The Redline Bar in Harvard Square, 10:30 PM.
Topic of discussion: a group of mostly left-leaning writers (and some of the Ten) discussing the unique names that can be found amongst the younger generation of African American children (a legitimate concern for writers in this multicultural age we live in.) After some debate as to why someone would name their daughter Ja’amaraqui or Cocaiene, our eldest member dropped this knowledge on us. “There is an amazing disconnect between white America and the black community. The names they give – neither traditional slave or African names, nor traditional American names like Ned and Steve -is a firm statement that they have their own, unique subculture. Sure, the names sound strange to us, but not to the other members of the community. So you see, when you come across someone with a strange name you may not be able to pronounce or spell correctly, what you ar really encountering is a declaration of independence and blackness."

And then your author was interrupted by a text message from his girlfriend informing him that Gwyneth Paltrow, the mother of Apple Martin, had just given birth to her second child, Moses.

Is it cheating to run the Marathon in a shoe with springs in the heels?
Why are runners allowed to wear shoes at all? Why not just level the playing field by making all of them run barefoot? Think about it.

[April 11, 2006]

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Every March 30th, Santa allows himself a rare moment of relaxation in his North Pole game Room

Massachusetts cracks down on teenage drivers.
Meanwhile…

"People 85 or older are more likely to kill somebody while driving than 16-year-olds are; drivers 65 or older are more likely than teens to have deadly multi-car collisions at intersections. The number of drivers aged 70 or older has doubled since 1985 and will have tripled by 2020. States are trying to scrutinize older drivers for fitness, but AARP chapters and other senior lobbies are fighting age-based rules. Seniors are also hiring lawyers and telling each other where to find lenient license-renewal offices. AARP official's argument: "You can't make a law based on a person's age." Rebuttal: Tell that to teenagers." (Via slate.com)

Yet Pete Rose still can’t get into the Hall of Fame
Red Sox unveil official lottery tickets

"The Red Sox are the first team in Major League Baseball to unveil a lottery game, but several others -- including the New York Yankees and Mets -- have plans to follow suit. The games are a result of a deal struck between Major League Baseball and a subsidiary of Scientific Games Corp. of New York to let team logos be used on instant tickets. In the next few years, dozens of teams are expected to unveil lottery games, executives said."

This makes sense...
...Only if your hotel has no working elevators and the guests are instead forced to use trampolines to reach their floor.

"A hotel in Germany has started charging its guests by the pound for an overnight stay, according to a Local 6 News report."(Via Marginal Revolution)

Why we hate talk radio.
A caller to WEEI on 3/27/06:

“In the last game of the season, at the end of the game, Willie Mcginest gave Larry Izzo a shove on the sidelines. Do you think that has anything to do with why he left the Patriots? Maybe he was becoming a cancer on the team? Do you think that had anything to do with it?"

“Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.”

Scientists engineered pigs to grow meat that might be healthier for you. They put a gene from worms into pig cells, then used the cells to clone pigs that make omega-3 fatty acids. The good news, according to Reuters: Omega-3 fats "have been shown to improve cardiac function and reduce the risk of heart disease." The bad news, also via Reuters: "A review of 89 studies published online by the British Medical Journal showed no strong evidence that omega-3 fats reduced deaths from cardiovascular disease." " (Via slate.com)

That’s it for now.
If you need us over the next days, we’ll be in Louisburg Square, throwing tomatoes at John Kerry’s house

[March 29, 2006]

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Snakes on a plane. Snakes on a Plane? Snakes on a plane! There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!

Future generations will remember 2006 as the year Snakes on a Plane was released. Trust us on this. Just when you lose all faith in the ability of Hollywood to give the people what they want, along comes a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson as a hard-boiled cop investigating ... snakes on a plane.

From one of the screenwriters approached to rewrite the script:

"What else do you need to know? How the snakes get on the plane, what the snakes do once they're on the plane, who puts the snakes on the plane, who is trying to get the snakes off the plane...This is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End of fucking story." via Josh Friedman's blog

Of all the stories floating around about this movie, we like this one the best:

"One particularly elaborate audio trailer (launch mp3) by 'Snakes' enthusiast Chris Rohan proved so popular it caught the eye of New Line, after Rohan's use of a Jackson sound-a-like screaming, "I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!" prompted online fans to demand the studio include the phrase in the movie. According to THR, along with more R-rated gore, death and nudity, the now-infamous line will also be added during the re-shoots."(via Panandscan.com)

August 18. Snakes on a Plane, motherfucker.

We never heard of these guys, but now that we have, we can’t imagine anyone wanting to get rid of them.
NY is about to retire a volunteer force of firefighters, who follow the NYPD to the scenes of fires and cleans up the aftermath.

For two centuries, the little-known patrol has responded to fires as an auxiliary force, underwritten by the insurance industry and long overshadowed by its municipal counterpart. While the Fire Department puts out fires, the patrol works in its wake, salvaging property and limiting the damage at commercial blazes. The patrolmen — no women are now on the force — do not bring hoses. They bring pumps for getting rid of the water. They do not break windows to vent heat. They bring protective canvas tarps to throw atop computers or retail goods. (via the NY times.)

They're also poetic, too. “Try as you may to explain who and what you are, still they see F.D.N.Y. ... We're the New York Fire Patrol, a sapling in the shadow of an oak."

Three guesses who won this confrontation

"And Satan sent upon the Earth a Deceiver to lead the believers into apostacy and wickedness, and that Deceiver had a name: the Grimmace. And he was served by bizarre demons called 'the Fry Guys.'"
One of the most brilliant things we’ve seen in a long while.

One of the Ten is always railing against what he calls "dolled-up” Irish bars.
Here's an explanation of exactly how they doll them up. We've been drinking in Irish bars all over Boston - and, incredibly, almost all of them can be broken down into one these prototypes.

We Couldn't Agree More.

"I think it’s fair to say that the Sopwith Camel was a superior fighter when compared to the SE5/5a, but the SE5/5a was a much easier airplane to fly. Put a hot pilot in the Camel and he could fly circles (always to starboard) around the SE5/5a. Put an average pilot in a Camel, however, and he stood a good chance of dying. From all reports, the Camel was a tricky beast in the best of situations because of all the torque from the rotary engine. The SE5/5a, though, was much easier to fly, and therefore led to many more pilots surviving. The SPAD XIII (and it’s predecessor, the SPAD VII) would be the WWI equivalent of WWII’s P-47 Thunderbolt. A big brick of an airplane, it could lose altitude in huge chunks. It was also sturdy as heck, but manueverability was not it’s strong point. In that way, too, it resembled a brick. If you applied today’s terms to them, the SPAD XIII would probably be classified as an interceptor, the Camel a dogfighter, and the SE5/5a as something in-between. My biggest problem with the SE5/5a was the gun layout. The single deck-mounted Vickers machinegun was supplemented with a center-wing mounted, drum-fed Lewis gun on a Foster slide that allowed the gun to be reloaded (or fired straight up). Reloading was NOT easy, as one basically had to fly the plane with your knees as you manhandled an ammunition drum into position whilst fighting the airflow from your 120mph velocity. You could pretty much forget about clearing a gun jam as well. The Camel and the SPAD XIII had two deck-mounted Vickers firing thru the propeller (indeed, the humped mounting for the guns are what gave the Camel it’s name). This pairing was much easier to aim successfully, could do more damage, and both were accessible in case of a jam. If I could only have one type of these three planes to outfit my “imaginary airforce,” I’d probably choose the SE5a. I’d try to get two Vickers on it, though…" Another heated debate, brought to you by the World Wide Web.

[March 27, 2006]

"(Sopranos) represents the Italians in an unfavorable light considering their contributions to civilization. The minute people think of crime and organized crime they think of the Italian ethnic group, and every ethnic group has organized crime,” said Pearl Oliva of Framingham, host of the Guido Oliva Italian Program on WSRO-AM 650. “Sometimes when I meet people and they ask about my Italian heritage, the first thing they mention is crime,” he said." From the Boston Herald

"Former mayor Raymond L. Flynn yesterday decried the number of books and television shows about Boston's ''Irish mob" released around this year's St. Patrick's Day holiday. ''Irish-American culture and history is under attack in America today," Flynn said in a statement faxed to media. CBS ''60 Minutes" recently aired a segment on South Boston mobster and FBI fugitive Whitey Bulger and several books on the subject have been released in recent weeks. Flynn said many South Boston residents have complained to him about the characterization of South Boston as a haven for organized crime. Flynn called for the creation of a committee on Irish-American discrimination. ''It's received extraordinary national attention," Flynn said in an interview. ''I hope we can get this back on track." From the Boston Globe

"But regrettably, despite great expectations, The Brothers Bulger is largely a clip job. That much will be quickly recognized by the Herald reporters who wrote the crime and political-news stories that Carr has pasted up with excerpts from previously reported trial testimony, depositions, and government hearings. Instead of breaking new ground, he’s mostly tilling old fields for tales worked by others, including the Globe Spotlight Team and the two Globe reporters — Dick Lehr and Gerry O’Neill — who published Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal in 2000." Boston Phoenix (found via Universalhub.com)

“Sirhan received a death sentence, which was commuted to life in prison in 1972 when the California Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. The assassin's parole hearing at Corcoran State Prison on Wednesday -- the 13th since his conviction and the first since Schwarzenegger's election in 2003 “ (Via the NY Times)

[March 20, 2006]

"DANCER'S NOT SHOW'S CUP OF C."
A busty ballerina claims she was fired from the Broadway hit, "Movin' Out," because her breasts grew a cup size while she was recovering from an injury and she could no longer fit into her costumes. Alice Alyse was a top dancer making $130,000 a year in the touring company show featuring Billy Joel's music and Twyla Tharp's choreography. She has now hired lawyer Larry Klayman, the scourge of the Clinton White House after he founded Judicial Watch, to sue the producers for wrongful termination and sexual harassment. Klayman told Page Six there was "a culture of fear and intimidation" backstage. Alyse, a dark-haired beauty, was injured twice, once after being dropped from six feet in the air. "I was coming back, but my breasts had gotten bigger," she said. "I'm a size zero, but the costumes were tight." A stage manager allegedly screamed at her: "Those [bleep]ing boobs are huge . . . We hired you at a C, and now you're a D."

Well, I watched Ferrell's audition off his best-of DVD. That helped me personally, because a) he went significantly over five minutes, and b) it gives you an idea of how little laughter there is in the room. You're watching Ferrell, and you're like, "This is fucking hilarious," and there's no real laughs. So it prepares you. No matter what you do, it's not going to be like killing at a stand-up club or an improv show. It's going to be going into a stale room, and feeling really awkward, and having to believe that what you're doing is really funny, beyond what the reaction is." (via kottke.org)

"Maybe you heard that the comic strip Boondocks is taking a six month hiatus.The creator, Aaron McGruder apparently doesn’t have enough time because he’s working on his animated TV show. The interesting part is that he hasn’t drawn the strip himself for years.” Via the Dilbert blog

AVC: There's some pretty harsh satire on South Park. They don't really care who they offend.
Isaac Hayes: But that's their thing! They're success was built on that cutting-edge stuff. I've had to defend them a lot of times. One time on BET Tonight I defended them because Tavis Smiley, the host on that show, was coming at me. It was a call-in show, too, so people were calling in. I told them not to take this stuff seriously. If you do, you'll get in trouble. Just enjoy it. Remember your high-school yearbook? You look at those pictures now, you laugh, right? That's what South Park is. You got to laugh at it. Because we cursed, but we just didn't dare let the principals, the teachers, or the preachers hear it. And we didn't turn out bad, okay? Just look at it that way. Also, usually there's some kind of moral message at the end for the kids, by the Chef.

AVC: They did just do an episode that made fun of your religion, Scientology. Did that bother you?
Isaac Hayes: Well, I talked to Matt and Trey about that. They didn't let me know until it was done. I said, "Guys, you have it all wrong. We're not like that. I know that's your thing, but get your information correct, because somebody might believe that shit, you know?" But I understand what they're doing. I told them to take a couple of Scientology courses, and understand what we do. [Laughs.] "

"In Mr. Moore's account of his career, the villains are clearly defined: they are the mainstream comics industry — particularly DC Comics, the American publisher of "Watchmen" and "V for Vendetta" — which he believes has hijacked the properties he created, and the American film business, which has distorted his writing beyond recognition. To him, the movie adaptation of "V for Vendetta," which opens on Friday, is not the biggest platform yet for his ideas: it is further proof that Hollywood should be avoided at all costs. "I've read the screenplay," Mr. Moore said. "It's rubbish."

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[February 13, 2006]

"It is certainly the right of individuals and governments to express their disagreement with these depictions. However, the use of violence, threats, boycotts and other extreme reactions are highly inappropriate and bode ill for future debates involving Islam, democracy and free speech

What has been overlooked in the controversy is the fact that despicable anti-Jewish caricatures appear daily in newspapers across the Arab and Muslim world."

"When Tammy Klein began investigating crime scenes eight years ago, it was virtually unheard of for a killer to use bleach to clean up a bloody mess. Today, the use of bleach, which destroys DNA, is not unusual in a planned homicide, said the senior criminalist from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Klein and other experts attribute such sophistication to television crime dramas like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," which give criminals helpful tips on how to cover up evidence."

They're actually educating these potential killers even more," said Capt. Ray Peavy, also of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and head of the homicide division. "Sometimes I believe it may even encourage them when they see how simple it is to get away with on television."

"G-rated movies favor boys, a new study says.
A study of the most popular G-rated movies of the past 15 years has found that three-quarters of the characters are male, raising concerns that Hollywood is inadvertently telling children that women are less important than men.

The survey, which will be unveiled tonight in Los Angeles by actress Geena Davis, analyzed the 101 top-grossing G-rated movies released between 1990 and 2004 and found that 75 percent of all characters were male, 72 percent of the speaking roles were male, and 83 percent of the characters in crowd scenes were male. The study, titled ''Where the Girls Aren't," analyzed 4,249 speaking characters in live-action and animated films made for children under the age of 11."

"Joe Kelly, president of Dads & Daughters, pointed to the 1995 animated film ''Toy Story" as an example. ''It's a marvelous movie, funny, clever, and it has a really important message -- that it's possible for clashing personalities and values to find a way to work together toward a common goal," he said. But it also has only one female toy with a speaking part, Bo Peep."

[February 9, 2006]

"Didn't the Sun Just Set Twice? Readers should enjoy the fun new book The Velocity of Honey by Jay Ingram, which concerns whether everyday truisms can be scientifically confirmed. Finding that hit home to me: it's actually true that time seems to speed up as you age. The internal biological clock runs more slowly each year, Ingram says, while the world continues to run at the same speed; this makes time seem to accelerate. Suppose in youth your internal clock ran at 100 units per hour, and the world ran at the same speed. In middle age your internal clock is down to 50 units per hour while the world continues to run at 100 units; this causes you to perceive the world as running at 200 units. As we were putting up the Christmas stuff last month, I thought, "Didn't we just take this stuff down?" Whereas when I was a boy there was nothing, nothing farther away than Christmas. The Velocity of Honey contends that our internal clocks are gaining speed, thus making time seem to pass slowly, only until about age 20; from then on the internal clock is losing speed and the passage of time seems to quicken. This may make sense in evolutionary terms, since natural selection only "cares" about the fitness of an animal until the age of reproduction, leaving us to our fates after that. As someone who feels the acceleration of time keenly -- my oldest is a 6-foot-3 high-school junior, and it just wasn't that long ago he was sleeping on my shoulder -- let me extend the standard advice to the young: Enjoy every day because the days are few. A person who lives the current American life expectancy gets about 29,000 days on this Earth. When you're young that may seem like an infinity; you will be amazed how quickly it seems like a rapidly diminishing shortage." (Via Tuesday Morning Quarterback)

[February 7, 2006]

Us: “That guy doesn’t look like a Camry owner.”
The Littlest Detective: “He's probably just looking for a place to sleep.”

Us: “I think they’re stealing it. Should we call it in?” (As a civilian, we live for the moments when we can say “call it in” in all seriousness.)
The Littlest Detective: “Nah.”
Us: “But what about the guy who owns the car?"
The Littlest Detective: “Fuck ‘em. Serves them right for leaving a Camry unlocked in this part of town.”

[February 2, 2006]

"Added Vladimir Grachev, boxing coach at the club: "You have a person born with such a physique once in a hundred years. Such a build, and such an intellect — Russia may not get another such man in our lifetimes". (via the LA Times)

[February 1, 2006]